(n.) A species of sandpiper (Tringa alpina); -- called also churr, dorbie, grass bird, and red-backed sandpiper. It is found both in Europe and America.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eight days ago, to the jubilation of its critics and environmentalists, it emerged that the Scottish executive was "minded to refuse" the £500m scheme as it would seriously damage the moor's extremely fragile, internationally-protected habitats for rare birds such as dunlin, golden eagles, merlin, golden plover and red-throated divers.
(2) The land that would be submerged hosts about 68,000 birds in winter, including huge flocks of dunlins and shelducks, together with Bewick's swans, curlews, pintails, wigeons and redshanks.
(3) Clouds of waders have risen up from the rapidly disappearing mud: a tight flock of several thousand dunlins , together with a few hundred of the larger knots, which spend the winter here on the estuary.
(4) Four species (mallard, dunlin, starling and blackbird) belonging to three different orders showed a high degree of Fc-mediated protein A- and protein G-reactivity.
(5) In examining the possible consequences on the reproduction of the Dunlin (Calidris alpina), it was found that no adverse effects are to be expected from selenium, mercury, arsenic or cadmium.
Redback
Definition:
(n.) The dunlin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hughes’s former team, the South Australian Redbacks, said they had lost their mate “Hughesy.” “Our deepest condolences to all his family and friends.
(2) A case of the delayed diagnosis of envenomation by the redback spider (Latrodectus mactans hasselti) is reported.
(3) The redbacked vole is the main host of I. trianguliceps larvae.
(4) garei (a bird flea) was found on the common redbacked vole.
(5) In the natural foci with the predominance of redbacked vole, the 2nd serotype of the virus circulates and the disease is of moderate severity or mild.
(6) The main host of the fleas is the common redbacked vole.
(7) Preimaginal phases of I. persulcatus feed, in general, on dominant species (common shrew, redbacked and narrow-skulled voles, field mouse and northern birch mouse).
(8) In addition, in the nests of the northern redbacked vole and root vole there were found gamasid mites belonging to 6 families.
(9) "In Australia, woman-of-the-house jobs include ridding our newly-rented house of a redback infestation.